From a0c0878805a14f985682626c1379941d99b75159 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 22:45:45 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] server: Allow creating a process without any parent or
 startup info.

---
 server/process.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/server/process.c b/server/process.c
index f5430c8f52f..c88c89bdf2c 100644
--- a/server/process.c
+++ b/server/process.c
@@ -886,6 +886,12 @@ DECL_HANDLER(new_process)
         return;
     }
 
+    if (!req->info_size)  /* create an orphaned process */
+    {
+        create_process( socket_fd, NULL, 0 );
+        return;
+    }
+
     /* build the startup info for a new process */
     if (!(info = alloc_object( &startup_info_ops ))) return;
     info->exe_file = NULL;